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This Pony Party is intended as an open thread!  Please do not rec the Pony Party!

Original article, by Alexander Cockburn, titled CounterPunch Diary and subheaded Creatures of Capital, via counterpunch.com:

Have no doubt that the bailout of the financial sector is reactionary. It’s a bunch of little boys sticking their fingers in the dike to save the bosses. Unfortunately, there are many more muskrats on the other side weakening the dike.

Ok, so they want to raise the FDIC insurance to $250k from $100k.  That can be done with a separate piece of legislation.  The problem is that the tax cuts (notice they’re for businesses, not the poor, working or middle classes) will just pile on the debt.

Originally posted on ePluribus Media.

So, how’s your understanding of “geek” nowadays?

If you’ve a vague but functional sense of these terms and commands, you could probably have a lot of geeky fun:

cd us_fin_crisis | chown neotreasury | chmod -777 mrkt.values | finger taxpayers | exit >> /dev/null

If you don’t speak geek, here’s a handy reference guide.¹

Systems Administrators, unix and linux gurus and other miscellaneous folks may take issue with my specific formatting and usage, but they’ll get the gist of it quickly.

If those of you tracking the financial markets noticed the rather interesting — and oddly unlucky — combination of the 777 point loss, you’ll begin to see why I made the connection.  Another reason that I found it significant, passing through my old unix Systems Administration days, was the fond and not-so-fleeting memories of knowing — and sometimes being — a bastard systems administrator from hell.²

And editorial original to All Over the Board:

So bailout plan A failed.  All well and good, but you know that there will be a bailout plan B, C, D, etc. until the bosses get what they want.  My guess is it’ll take tomorrow’s session on the stock markets around the world and the failure of another big bank.

Original article, by Lance Selfa and subtitled Both parties have honored Corporate America’s wish for eliminating government regulation, via Socialistworker.org:

LIKE EVERYTHING else in Washington–from the Iraq war to the USA PATRIOT Act–the financial crisis that has already brought down a host of blue-chip Wall Street firms is a bipartisan disaster.

Orignal article, an editorial subheaded The Bush administration and congressional Democrats are agreed on a bank-robbery-in-reverse to bail out the titans of Wall Street–but the Republican free-market madmen are getting in the way, via socialistworker.org.

BY DAY, it looked like an honorable agreement among thieves–Democratic and Republican lawmakers joining together over a White House conference table to hammer out the basic points of a $700 billion bailout of the Wall Street financial system at the expense of the vast majority of Americans.

Is it just me, or are these guys just epically stupid?

Try this one: